Krásný ztráty (Beautiful losers) - that is the curator of the Polish Art Bunker photo Gabriella Csoszo
Curatorial Residences in Prague came to an end. I envied artists that have a much easier - the possibilities of travel in disguise and that there are so few similar opportunities for curators. It's a little change. Interview with Alberto di Stefano from Gallery Futura, I was the guy, helped me to understand why this happens. Alberto believes that, it pays to call a guardian of both parties - and the one that invited guests will explore a local environment, and that which he represents. Cause I do not go just as an individual, a lone figure, a curator is surrounded by a group of people, develop projects, can make more connections between the communities than the artist can build bridges.
According to Mariusz Szczygiel Prague to visit in the fall or the spring, but I was in peak season tourism. The city flooded by crowds of people - but not so hard to live, as one would expect. Certainly a good drift problems of living in a summer town, helped to location - outside the center, but close, in the Žižkov district, which - as stated is one of the people who wrote in Polish about Prague - is considered by guides for Prague Prag, something like " go there if you want to discover the true taste of Prague. " Indeed, the district is currently undergoing a period of recovery, with the impoverished working class, also inhabited by the Roma, is a lively place hitherto where residents mingle with newcomers, there are foreigners, many colonies were founded, there are those Russians, many - artists. Bořivojova street, as everyone repeats, contains the most pubs per m2 in Prague. The news does not necessarily impress me, but it looks real. On the occasion of Žižkov he became so elegant and Residence of the place, as the neighboring Vinohrady. I lived at the television tower, adorned with black thing that moves vertically, like a giant fly, baby David Černý sculpture. (The general way to the Prague public art has become set in her surprising and more flashy than impressive sculptures.) TV tower stood in the old Jewish cemetery, which survived only a part, as seen in its immediate neighborhood.
There is much more multicultural than any city in Polish. I was struck not already well-known American in Prague, but a significant number of Russians and Ukrainians, who have tied their lives and careers with the capital of the Czech Republic. One of my callers made me realize that the five nominations for the awards Jindřicha Chalupecký'ego, the largest prize for young artists in the Czech Republic (and seven artists, which included these nominations), among others, found three Russians, one Ukrainian and one Czech artist.
characteristic feature of life here is the dominance of private art initiatives. As I explained, this is due to lack of interest in state support for contemporary art. At first glance it looks rather the maintenance by the state does not do what you need, because pompous institutions such as National Galleries of huge kubaturowo division dedicated to the art of modern and contemporary, which is Veletrzni Palace. It is widely criticized and defeated the incumbent because since the Velvet Revolution General National Gallery Director Milan Knižaka. Biennale of Young Art Gallery also presented Hlavního Mesta Prahy, but not the level it was getting to the shows at private institutions. Because the three major institutions from prague contemporary art: Futura, Dox and Meetfactory, launched a private, but receive support from the city and the ministry. For these institutions, about the ambitions of a contemporary art center (each of which is profiled to the contrary: Futura as an ambitious contemporary art center, probing especially art from the Czech and Eastern Europe, Dox as a place more popular, showing the stars, doing spectacular, impressive exhibition, with an emphasis on the popularization and Meetfactory as a place to create art, created by artists for artists, multidisciplinary).
and art ... the top is similar, also in consideration of the damned problems, among which are the most important issue of freedom, and memory. There are a lot of acute political art. This statement caused strong opposition from the Czech interviewees who consider that such art, however, is more in Poland, because I work here, Peter Fuss, Zbigniew Libera, Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Rajkowska, while the mark of Czech art are rather neutral considerations postconceptual. But in the Czech Republic operates Guar Gum, and Milan Mikulaštik also works as a curator. Bold action Roxy NoD Gallery, for example, competition for land use Hradcany, which has attracted much attention, as well - it's share of guar gum - making a false show Knižaka Milan ("Milan Knižak - Podivný Kelt, Vernon Fine Art, January 2008), the counterfeiting of its work and resume, as well as equipment sales, is very strong and courageous gestures criticism, to which nobody in Poland would not dare. Knižak, a former dissident Fluksusowiec and which, through indomitable awangardysty ethos and the opponent communism, has taken the position of Director-General of the National Gallery. Now, however, the former dissident is widely hated for the stifling of freedom of artistic expression and using their positions for personal benefit. I think that in the same 2008 years Guar Gum was an exhibition jointly with Zbigniew Libera (Gallery Futura). I know, I recall only one group activity, but it generates an activity centered around the environment.
Despite this, indeed, but unless the political art is the specialty of anarchistic communities. Visits to exhibitions, shows that there is more participatory projects, social, in the sense that engaging, using and describing the small communities. Artists generally follow the footsteps of Katarina Sedy, but seeking their own solutions, such as whether the duo Barbora Alexey Klimov Klyuykov & Vasil Artamonov, however, Polish art has a greater burden of existential. Indeed bears the burden on the shoulders of a sense of destiny, which in the Czech Republic does not even exist. But I admit that I have no opinion on the issue - I can not judge whether this is good or bad. I yearn for art other than the grim in Poland, on the other hand, I can not get from her free.
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The best exhibitions that I saw in Prague - in the next post.
